The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-09-15

The safe of the county treasurer at Green
vile, o., was opened and robbed Of $4S,OOO.
The treasurer and his son have been arrest
ed, charged with enbezzlement and grand
larceny.
Thomas kave, of Abingdon, Ills, tried
to kill his wife, firing three shots at her. She
fell at the last shot but was unhurt. Think
ing her killed he put bullet through his
own head, dying instantly.
The residence OF Cardinal Gibbons was
robbed on Sunday of two valuable rings,
one of which was present from Pope Leo,
and the other was left by the late Arch
bishop Bailey and valued at 81 600.
At Missoula. Mont, Geo. Guenther, a dive
keeper, shot and killed Geo. Moore, Of Co.
b. 3rd. Infantry, and shot himself through
the head dying instantly. Gnenther was very
jealous of Moore's intimacy with his wife.
Samuel Chew, aged 50. who was assaulted
and robbed by masked burglars on the
night of Aug. ., near Lucas, o., has died
from his injuries. Two brothers, William
and Cal Spayde, have been arrested for the
crime.
At Columbus, Ohio, one of the most
| horrible crimes committed in that city
was perpetrated by VIM. Farmer, a
| colored man. i'll numbering a young colOred
woman named Agnes Jones, by cutting her
| throat from ear to ear in q fit of jealousy,
| nearly seyering the head from the body.
| Syl Bassett, a young desperate living
near Shelby vile, Ind, was beating his aged
father Sunday night, when his brother, AL
bert Bassett, interfered. Syl turned
Ao1, ,lnl ina Int
ing fatal injuries. At last accounts Syl was
holding the fort with a shotgun and defying
| arrest.
John Weston, colored, in Wichita cut
three horrible gashes in the throat of his
| girl, Claude Waller, and then cut his own
/ throat and shot himself twice in the breast.
He was prompted to the deed through
jealousy, and left note to his parents say
| ing he died for love and wanted to be buried
| in the same grave with Claude
Anattempt to wreck a train for the purpose
of robbery is reported from Lebanon, o
Abouta o'clock Saturday morning, as q
train of eleven cars with 500 passengers was
returning from Cincinnati, the engine en-
countered, at point about mile from Le
banon, an obstruction made of railroad
track, ties and fence rails. The passengers
were shaken up, but no one was hurt.
A special from Memphis, Tenn, says Guy
Smith shot two men in 1869 at Salisbury
Tenn. while defending his brother from
their attack He thought he had killed then
and fled, and has since been wanderer un
der an assumed name. Recently ht
learned that the men had recovered Hs
returned to his wife and family, but found
that an indictment found against him fol
murder. when it was supposed his victim.
were dead, had by an over. sight never beer
quashed. He had to stand trial and has
just bsen acquitted. During his exile b.
acquired fortune by speculations in Mexi
co.
At Omaha, Neb., Jacob Albrec, well
to.do citizen, shot his wife and then killed
himself The wife was shot in the righ
breast. the b Il going through her body
She is yet alive. She says: We have beer
married ten years, and never had any
trouble Yesterday my brother in-la
visited me. guess that is what caused my
husband to shoet me. He had been drink
ing After abusing me he fired. ran. HI
fired three more shots The cause Of tn,
deed was jealousy. Albrec thought hi
wife was too intimate with her sister,
husband. He leaves an estate worth so,